I'll live in small town about 200 km from the capital Indianapolis. There I'll go to school which is located 5 km from my host family's house.
Before last Autumn I hadn't never thought about going exchange myself. I had just heard about other's experiences. Then I started to think what if I'd go. I was thinking that for a while and I was sure I WANT to go. As YFU's motto says (freely translated): "it doesn't matter where you go if you at least go". I wanted to learn about different cultures and language skills would get better at the same time. I decided that my first choise is USA, Great Britannia would have also been good but many organizations don't do student exchange there. My second choise was Germany but I thought I'd rather improve my English skills. Of course Germany would have been great too.
In Autumn I started to search information about exchange and I applied trought few organizations. I think I was little bit too late because in many countries there were no more places for exchange students. Luckily I still got mine. If you want to be an exchange student, I recommend you to start early, like in August or earlier. I have been filling in sooo much papers and stuff but I'm sure this year will be worth of it and much more!
Information about my host family came in April. I was so happy because I had no idea when they will come. It would be possible that I'll be flying to the USA and have no information about my host family. But I was lucky!
In the beginning of summer I was just really excited about next year. A month ago I realized how much I will miss everything in Finland. Well, now I haven't yet realized that after one week I won't be here anymore for ten months. I'm still very excited. I know there will be ups and downs but I know that this won't be just a year in my life, this will be my other life in a year.
- Maija -
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